00:00Help me with this story, Joe, because all along Scooble was like,
00:03all right, I think I'm just going to pitch one time against Great Britain to go home.
00:05So on that initial analysis, we're saying to ourselves,
00:08well, why would you pitch against one of the worst teams in the WBC?
00:11Wouldn't you just wait until you got to actually pitch in the knockout stages
00:15against the better teams?
00:16That was baffling, to say the least.
00:18Then he pitched and was like, hey, man, emotions are high right now.
00:20I think I do want to come back and maybe pitch in some of these extra games,
00:24maybe start, maybe come out of the bullpen.
00:26Story comes out yesterday.
00:27Team USA's Tarek Scooble will leave the team after Monday's game versus Mexico
00:31and return to Tigers camp, Mark DeRosa announced.
00:35So, Joe, I'm going to ask you this question.
00:37If we look at Tarek Scooble and say to ourselves,
00:41well, if he goes back to Detroit spring training,
00:43he's going to have a few more spring training starts
00:46where I'm pretty sure he's not throwing 50 miles per hour to save his arm.
00:50Or he could pitch 50, maybe 50 to 60 pitches in the WBC
00:55like it was a spring training start.
00:57I must be missing something, really.
01:01It's, what it tells me, Donnie, is that this is likely above his pay grade.
01:07The people making the decisions here, you know, let's not forget,
01:10this guy is going to be a free agent after this season.
01:14And he is going to be, by far, the, if you thought what you got with Otani was good,
01:20it's going to be through the roof.
01:22It's going to be one of the largest starting pitching contracts in baseball history.
01:28Somebody above, whether it's the Tigers, it's his agent's team, whatever it is,
01:33there's something else going on behind the scenes that we don't know about.
01:38Otherwise, listen, he's a player, right?
01:39He would stay with the team, but he is actually going through it.
01:43And he said it yesterday, like, this is, it's impossible for me to make this,
01:48you know, this is a tough decision.
01:50I don't think he's making it alone, though.
01:52I think there are external factors here that we don't know about.
01:55I think there are external factors here that we don't know about.
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